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Roanoke, Illinois - 3 schools
An equity score of 40/100 ranks Roanoke Benson Cusd 60 #354 of 763 districts in Illinois (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,604 per pupil, Roanoke Benson Cusd 60 ranks #450 of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending (Illinois districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
439
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$15,604
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Roanoke Benson Cusd 60 operates 3 public schools serving 439 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Illinois. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Woodford County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,604 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 848 Illinois districts by per-pupil spending. See how Illinois compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 65.3% local, 28.1% state, and 6.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 40/100, ranked #354 of 763 in Illinois against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 3 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 146:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 26.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.5% White, 2.9% Hispanic or Latino, 2.4% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Roanoke-Benson High School, with a diversity index of 15.4/100.
Its largest campus is Sowers Elementary School, enrolling 161 students (36% of the district's total enrollment).
Sowers Elementary School accounts for 35.9% of all Roanoke Benson Cusd 60 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Roanoke Benson Cusd 60-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Roanoke Benson Cusd 60 student-counselor ratio is 146:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Roanoke Benson Cusd 60 chronic absenteeism rate is 26.4% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Roanoke Benson Cusd 60 is typically wider than the Roanoke Benson Cusd 60-aggregate figure suggests.